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Confederate and Prison
* 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D. C.
At Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, 10 % of its Confederate prisoners died during one cold winter month ; and Elmira Prison in New York state, with a death rate of 25 %, very nearly equalled that of Andersonville.
* July 29 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
Captain Frey was taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg on 1 July 1863 and held in Libby Prison for eighteen months before being exchanged for Captain Gordon, a Confederate prisoner under sentence of death.
In the episode " Incident at Alabaster Plain " Rowdy Yates tells how he and a fellow Confederate Corporal ( Buzz Travis ) escaped the Yuma Territorial Prison during the Civil War.
< span style =" font-size: 8pt "> POW, South to North from Jacob S. Devine Co C 71st Pa Vol., captured Battle of Gettysburg, detained at Libby Prison no Confederate stamp / inspection markings ; received w / US postmarks, Christmas Day, 1863, w / ' Due 3 ' hand-stamp </ font > A prisoner's cover was usually docketed with the prisoner's name, rank, and company.
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( The Prisoner's Hope )" a song written in 1864 by George F. Root in response to conditions in the Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prison during the American Civil War.
* Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War
Bird's Eye View of the Confederate Prison Pen, Salisbury, North Carolina, 1861, lithograph
Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.
The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter ( also known as Andersonville Prison ), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War.
Gilham went to work in Richmond for Southern Fertilizer Company, which occupied the former Confederate Libby Prison facility near Richmond's Tobacco Row.
During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), Tobacco Row was the site of infamous Libby Prison and nearby Castle Thunder, detention facilities of the Confederate government.
During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), Tobacco Row was the site of infamous Libby Prison and nearby Castle Thunder, detention facilities of the Confederate government.
Walker fought in the Peninsula Campaign and was injured at the Battle of Chancellorsville but subsequently participated in the Bristoe, Overland, and Richmond-Petersburg Campaigns before being captured by Confederate forces and held at the infamous Libby Prison.
During the Civil War, Arsenal Island was home to a large Union army prison camp for captured Confederate soldiers ( the Rock Island Prison Barracks ).
468 Confederate prisoners captured in battles at Chattanooga, Tennessee were the first to arrive, although, over 5000 total would swell the population of Rock Island Prison in that month alone.
* Cahaba Prison ( or Cahawba Prison ), a Confederate prison
Federal and Confederate records indicate that between 142 and 147 men died at Cahaba Prison.
He was captured by the Confederate Army and sent to Libby Prison, where he served as a chaplain to his fellow prisoners-of-war.
She left the hospital in 1863, when it was converted into Point Lookout Confederate Prison.

Confederate and Camp
During the Civil War, the Confederate army established Camp Sumter to house incoming Union prisoners of war.
In the Camp Jackson Affair, a large force of German volunteers helped prevent Confederate forces from seizing the government arsenal in St. Louis just prior to the beginning of the war.
Camp Randall, on the west side of Madison, was built and used as a training camp, a military hospital, and a prison camp for captured Confederate soldiers.
Columbus itself was host to large military bases, Camp Chase and Camp Thomas, which saw hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers and thousands of Confederate prisoners during the Civil War.
Camp Ford was the largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War and was where Sheriff Jim Reed of Collin County and Judge McReynolds, former chief justice of the district were seized and lynched by " Regulators ".
United Confederate Veterans organized a chapter known as the " William P. Rogers Camp " in San Saba County after the death in 1889 of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
* 1889-United Confederate Veterans William P. Rogers Camp No. 322 was established, named for Col. William P. Rogers.
The statue was funded by public donations, the civic organization Self Culture Club, Jeff Davis Camp 117, and United Confederate Veterans.
Outside the building the Dick Taylor Camp of Confederate veterans erected a monument to honor the county ’ s dead in the American Civil War.
Camp Henderson became the new county seat and the settlement was renamed Cleburne in honor of Confederate General Patrick Cleburne.
* 1896 Camp Ben McCulloch, named after Brigadier General, was organized for reunions of United Confederate Veterans.
In September 2009, the Chattooga County Camp 507, Sons of Confederate Veterans in conjunction with the Missionary Ridge Camp 63 Sons of Union Veterans, and several local groups erected a memorial monument to remember the " First Battle of Trion Factory " and the soldiers who are buried in unmarked graves at Trion.
The county is the location of the Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery, Toltec Mounds State Park, and the Joe Hogan Fish Hatchery — one of the world's largest working fish hatcheries.
428 poorly marked graves were exhumed in 1905 by a group of Confederate veterans and moved to a new site at Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery located in Cabot on Rye Drive, just off Cherry Road between Campground and Mount Carmel Roads.
Camp ( and later Fort ) Gordon was named for Confederate Lieutenant General John Brown Gordon.
Prior to the arrival of Union forces, Confederate soldiers evacuated the Camp Lawton prisoners to Savannah.
The Confederate States Army had a training camp, Camp Harrison, in Screven for a short time in the Fall of 1860.
Union Camp Joe Anderson, located northwest of Hopkinsville, was established in 1862 after the Confederate forces had retreated to Tennessee.

Confederate and site
A Confederate observed that the Yankees were: `` thicker than lise on a hen and a dam site ornraier ''.
The Confederate Army occupied the building during the American Civil War, In 1865, the Custom House was the site of the ceremony officially ending the Civil War.
From 1893 to 1938 Jacksonville was the site of the Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home with a nearby cemetery.
The county was a frequent site of conflict during the civil war, as Union and Confederate lines moved back and forth along the Shenandoah valley.
Winchester and the surrounding area were the site of numerous battles during the American Civil War, as both the Confederate and Union armies strove to control that portion of the Shenandoah Valley.
On March 2, 1865, Waynesboro was the site of the last battle of the Civil War for the Confederate Lt. General Jubal A.
* Appomattox Courthouse: The site of the Battle of Appomattox Court House, where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Stewart County is home to Fort Donelson, the site of a Confederate stand against the Union's push up the Cumberland River during the Civil War.
In 1861, the Confederate States Army built extensive fortifications in Lauderdale County and named the site for General Gideon J. Pillow.
A 300-man Union Army force surprised an equally large Confederate unit near the present site of Locust Grove, Oklahoma in July 1862.
Booneville was the site of several small-scale Confederate raids / invasions.
None of the battles of the American Civil War were fought in or near Wilkes County, but it was here, on the site of the present Wilkes County Courthouse in downtown Washington, where President Jefferson Davis met for the final time with the Confederate Cabinet They officially dissolved the government of the Confederate States of America.
The Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ) brought one of Georgia's most notable and notorious landmarks to the area, when a small village named Andersonville, nine miles ( 14 km ) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner of war camp.
Also located near this community, there still stands an artillery site ( now called the " Confederate Breast Works "), which was manned by the Confederacy to guard against Union movements along the Nolan Trace during the Civil War. Vernon Parish Map, 1895.
To the east of the city, there is a Civil War site where Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeated Abel Streight and his band of raiders.
The town became a scene for local Confederate recruiting during the Civil War, and was the site of a battle in March 1865 between local Home Guard units and pro-Union irregulars operating out of Florida.
Auburn was the site of a hospital for Texan Confederate soldiers, but only saw direct combat with the raids of Rousseau in 1864 and Wilson in 1865.
Many hundreds of the soldiers who died in the hospitals during the war were buried in a Confederate cemetery on the south end of Webb's Bend, but the site is under water today, following the damming of the river below Demopolis in the 20th century.
* Cherbourg was the first site outside the United States to be designated as an American Civil War Heritage Site by the Civil War Preservation Trust, because a sea battle was fought nearby in 1864 by Union and Confederate warships.
Sweet Home was the site of the Arkansas Confederate Soldiers ' Home from 1890 to 1955, but the home was moved to the grounds of the Schools for the Deaf and Blind in Little Rock from 1955-1963.
Baldwin was the site of a civil war skirmish and until recently, dirt revetments could be found in one part of the town where defenses by Confederate forces were erected against the advance of the Union forces.
The Confederate cannon battery site can still be seen on the wooded point just north of the Bayport fishing pier at the mouth of the Weeki Wachee River.

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